Contact: Mara Powell 502-895-8167 *122 mpowell@kyyouth.org Statement by Dr. Terry Brooks, executive director of Kentucky Youth Advocates With the e-cigarette epidemic impacting kids across the Commonwealth, we applaud Senator Ralph Alvarado for championing Senate Bill 56 to ensure Kentucky complies with the new federal Tobacco-21 law, and we thank the Kentucky House for supporting its passage through consent orders today. This measure seeks to codify in state law a minimum legal sale age of 21 for tobacco [...]

Contact: Kelsey Dimar 502-895-8167 *110 kdimar@kyyouth.org Statement by Dr. Terry Brooks, executive director of Kentucky Youth Advocates As much as we don’t want to believe it, children and teens often rely on friends or relatives close in age to get harmful tobacco products, including e-cigarettes. We applaud Senator Ralph Alvarado for championing Senate Bill 56, which seeks to codify in state law the minimum legal sale age of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, from 18 to [...]

Contact: Mara Powell 502-895-8167 *122 mpowell@kyyouth.org Statement by Dr. Terry Brooks, executive director of Kentucky Youth Advocates With today’s passage of House Bill 32 to enact a tax on e-cigarette products, the Kentucky House strengthened their commitment to facing the youth e-cigarette use epidemic head on. E-cigarettes put our young people at risk of nicotine addiction, serious lung injury or disease, and other harmful health outcomes. In 2018, the Kentucky General Assembly made a much [...]